Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi (Hebrew: רחל ינאית בן-צבי‎; May 1886[2] – 16 November 1979) was an Israeli author and educator, and a leading Labor Zionist.

Rachel Yanait was born Golda Lishansky in the town of Malyn, Radomyslsky Uyezd of the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine).

[3] The following year, while studying agriculture in France, she was chosen as the Poale Zion delegate from Malyn to the Seventh Zionist Congress in Basel.

After the Congress she accompanied Ber Borochov on a visit to the leader of the German Zionist Organisation in Berlin, Dr Arthur Hantke.

[5] The following year she and Yitzhak Ben Zvi took part in the first meeting of Hashomer, the Jewish underground militia.

Her son, Eli, died in March 1948 at Beit Keshet during the civil war in Mandatory Palestine.